1. Word Of Mouth The media was there last. This is akin to the seventies, when your favorite band finally hit and then everybody went back and bought the catalog and you could take a victory lap. Only in this case, as a result of the changes in the media landscape, it took more like […]

1. John Mayer "Born and Raised" Sales this week: 65,432Percentage change: -70Weeks on: 2Cume: 285,370 I love the opening cut, "Queen Of California": Goodbye coldGoodbye rainGoodbye sorrowAnd goodbye shame John Mayer "Born and Raised" Spotify That’s the L.A. experience. Leaving the oppression behind for a land of opportunity. And the track sounds as fresh and […]

Have you seen the Mary Meeker slides? She showed them at last week’s D Conference. But a tech entrepreneur friend of mine tweeted about them today, a week later. Or how about David Lowery’s screed about the new boss being worse than the old boss? That was posted on April 15th, but almost ever day […]

A Concert Mogul Is Betting on Electronic Dance Music You’ve got to sell to somebody. Just ask Zappos. Or Groupon! Zappos sold to Amazon, otherwise the online retail giant would have gone into competition with the sassy shoe sales site. As for Groupon… It should have sold to Google. It made the mistake of believing […]